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Narco-Terrorism
Modern society is increasingly complex, with large and growing populations, massive world poverty, decreasing natural resources, environmental pollution, increased technology, religious fundamentalism, lack of equal opportunity for all people, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor all contributing to today's political and societal problems. Two of the major problems facing the world are illegal narcotics and terrorism. Unfortunately, since the 1990s these two activities have combined in ways that greatly enhance their individual destructive potential. This phenomenon has been called narcoterrorism.
All of the major developed nations have a serious illegal narcotics problem, albeit to different degrees, depending upon each nation's approach to the problem as one of treatment and education or as one of criminal activity. The more common narcotics that are listed as ...
- Corruption
- Crimes and Criminal Markets
- Accounting Fraud
- Art and Antiquities: Fraud
- Art and Antiquities: Plunder
- Biopiracy
- Black Market Peso Exchange
- Capital Flight
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- Child Exploitation
- Cigarette Smuggling
- Cocaine
- Computer-Generated Scams
- Copyright Infringement
- Counterfeit Currency
- Counterfeit Goods
- Diamonds and Jewelry
- Draft Dodging
- Drug Trade: Legislative Debates
- Drug Trade: Source, Destination, and Transit Countries
- Financial Fraud
- Forgery
- Gambling: Illegal
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- Gender-Based Violence
- Heroin
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- Human Trafficking
- Identity Theft
- Informal Value Transfer Systems
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- Marijuana or Cannabis
- Money Laundering: History
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- Nigerian Money Scams
- Organ Trafficking
- Pharmaceuticals
- Piracy: Failed States
- Piracy: History
- Pollution: Air and Water
- Pollution: Corporate
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- Pornography
- Price-Fixing
- Pyramid Schemes
- Sales Tax
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- Tariff Crimes
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- Telemarketing Fraud
- Tobacco Smuggling
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- Weapons Smuggling
- Wildlife Crime
- Definitions, Changing Concepts, and Impact of Transnational Crime
- Alien Conspiracies and Protection Systems
- Communication Technologies
- Disorganized Crime: Reuter's Thesis
- Impact of Transnational Crime
- Legal and Illegal Economies
- Mafia Myths and Mythologies
- Measuring Transnational Crime
- Offenders or Offenses
- Organized Crime: Defined
- Profit-Driven Crime: Naylor's Typology
- Risk Assessments
- Technology
- Terrorism: Defined
- Transnational Crime: Defined
- Geography of Transnational Crime
- Modes of Operation and Facilitators for Crime
- Policing and Intelligence Organizations
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- Policing: Domestic
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- United Nations
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- World Bank
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- Sources of Data and Research on Transnational Crime
- The State as an Instigator of Crime
- Strategies of Law Enforcement and Justice
- Adjudicating International Crimes
- Anticorruption Legislation
- Antiterrorist Financing
- Centralization
- Civil Forfeiture: The Experience of the United States
- Conventions, Agreements, and Regulations
- Corporate Liability
- Criminal Associations
- Criminal Forfeiture and Seizure
- Deportation
- Executive Order 13581
- Extradition
- Harmonization
- Intelligence Agencies: Collaboration Within the United States
- Intelligence Agencies: U.S.
- Joint Force Policing and Integrated Models
- Mega-Trials
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- Money Laundering: Countermeasures
- Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties
- Police Cooperation
- Policing: High Versus Low
- Policing: Privately Contracted
- Policing: Transnational
- Prosecution: International
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
- Recovery of Stolen Assets
- Responsibilization
- Sanctions and Blacklisting
- Stings and Reverse Stings
- Transitional Justice
- UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
- Underground Banking Regulations
- Structure and Membership of Criminal Operations
- Terrorism
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